When people think they can slide something by me without my finding out about it. As I've mentioned before, I'm estranged from my parental units due to a large amount of boundary trampling.

As a bit more background, I am on good terms with my younger brother, who still lives with the parents now because he's gone back to school for engineering and this upcoming spring semester will be his last and he plans on moving out and getting a place with his gf then. But as our parents are paying for his school and he lives with them, and knowing how they are, I'm sure they put him up to this.

See, I found out after their visit (brother and gf) on Saturday that he gave my boys his cell phone # and told them if they wanted to talk to their grandparents, to let him know and he'd put them on the phone. He also said "Your grandparents love and miss you a lot and would love to hear from you."

My oldest told me this Sunday morning as we were driving to church and it bothered me quite a bit but then after talking to someone else at the church and to DH and my best friend, I'm not so much mad at my brother as I am disappointed though admittedly not surprised. Most likely they pushed him to do this and not wanting to jeopardize the funding for school this close to graduating, he went along with it.

So I'm more annoyed than angry, I suppose because I didn't fully trust him to begin with. I love him, he's my baby brother, and there was a time I was as spineless wrt them as he is now so I can't really judge too harshly.

But mostly I'm saying "Come on, really? Y'all haven't learned that I have ways of finding things out?" Even if my son hadn't told me, I would have found out when the cell phone bill came in!

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Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. Be cheerful, strive to be happy. -Desiderata

It is never enforced and it's always full with people who don't have kids. Now these people are SS and I have learned that some people are just lazy. There is not much I can do, I just wish the shop would use a bit of sense. The supermarkets insist on putting the spaces really, really close to the entrance. Which is why the SS use them because they are lazy. While I 'as a mum' use them because of the extra space on both sides YMMV.I don't care how far the space is away from the shop. all I care about is being able to get to my Babies car seat. If I had a Penny for every time some one has made it impossible to get my Little girl in.

So I inevitable end up parking in the waist land at the back, just to make sure I have space once I have finished shopping.

It's used by the disabled for overflow parking to but I have absolutely no problem with that (unless there is available DP and they just use a M&B spot)

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“For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.” - Jonah Lehrer

If you've posted on the thread you're looking for, you can always go to your own profile and look back through your own posts, too.

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How about the inability to stop a thread you've posted in from coming up after you've lost interest in it?

Worse... I subscribed to a thread once. I don't think you can undo that, either, and I'm sick of the emails.

The "unnotify" button at the top and bottom of every thread doesn't work?

I have a problem with subscriptions too - but my problem is that I only seem to get notification emails about half the time. I usually end up going and digging for the thread myself, and sure enough, I've usually missed a bunch of new posts.

I'm also being driven up the wall by my keyboard. I knocked over my bottle of acetone and completely ruined the entire bottom row of the one I'd been using. Now I'm stuck with my spare that I make millions of typos on because it has a different key layout...

1. Came home last night to find my antivirus software had performed an automatic update that caused my log in to fail, over and over. We had to restore to an earlier point. It took an hour to fix.

2. DS keeps bringing home "stray" kitties he finds. They have been cats that are fed and watered but outside, which is against our community rules, but they aren't homeless.

3. The fellow students in one of my classes, who filed formal complaints against the professor because she had to cancel one class meeting due to a family medical emergency. No one missed any assignments, as the due date changed when she returned from being out for a few days. The professor had a hearing with the Dean of the college today. Completely unfair.

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“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."-J.R.R Tolkien

How about the inability to stop a thread you've posted in from coming up after you've lost interest in it?

Worse... I subscribed to a thread once. I don't think you can undo that, either, and I'm sick of the emails.

The "unnotify" button at the top and bottom of every thread doesn't work?

I have a problem with subscriptions too - but my problem is that I only seem to get notification emails about half the time. I usually end up going and digging for the thread myself, and sure enough, I've usually missed a bunch of new posts.

I'm also being driven up the wall by my keyboard. I knocked over my bottle of acetone and completely ruined the entire bottom row of the one I'd been using. Now I'm stuck with my spare that I make millions of typos on because it has a different key layout...

How about the inability to stop a thread you've posted in from coming up after you've lost interest in it?

Worse... I subscribed to a thread once. I don't think you can undo that, either, and I'm sick of the emails.

The "unnotify" button at the top and bottom of every thread doesn't work?

I have a problem with subscriptions too - but my problem is that I only seem to get notification emails about half the time. I usually end up going and digging for the thread myself, and sure enough, I've usually missed a bunch of new posts.

I'm also being driven up the wall by my keyboard. I knocked over my bottle of acetone and completely ruined the entire bottom row of the one I'd been using. Now I'm stuck with my spare that I make millions of typos on because it has a different key layout...

It's used by the disabled for overflow parking to but I have absolutely no problem with that (unless there is available DP and they just use a M&B spot)

I've done that a few times, with my Dad when there was no disabled parking. Every single time, when we came back out of the store, at least one of the disabled spots would be free.

I am talking about watching a car pull in with tags when all the DP spaces are empty. In their defense they may see marked bays and assume they are DP.

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“For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.” - Jonah Lehrer